Thanks for all the helpful comments everyone! Another night of playing
around and I finally got the darn thing working - all except the most
important part (see below).
I'm not really sure what it was that actually fixed it, but I pretty
much started from scratch. First of all, I made sure that I had a clean
httpd.conf file, as I had managed to garble it quite well in my previous
attempts (I had made a bunch of changes to httpd.conf based on various info
- I'm guessing that some of these might have been questionable or not
necessary). So I got a clean original httpd.conf off of another FC2 machine,
changed the relevant settings to match my previous httpd.conf, making sure
not to muck with any of the other changes I had made since trying to install
FPSE. Once I was satisfied that it was 'clean' and that Apache was still
working, I went through the entire process on John Spence's tutorial:
http://www.johnspencer.info/LinuxTutorials/Red_Hat_FPSE/FPSE2002onRedHat9.ht
ml
I didn't really do anything differently than before, but only changed the
things he mentioned. I also downloaded the source file and install script
from RTR's site -- checking against what I had been using before, I
discovered that the source was different! Strange . . . Anyway, the
install script seemed to work, but gave 'errors' about a few things (missing
subwebs, a failed upgrade), probably related to my previous failed attempts.
Also, it strangely didn't ask for a password when it created my frontpage
administrator -- disturbing. Doubtful, I opened up the admin pages and LO
and BEHOLD, they worked! I think that I'm able to set up everything
correctly in the admin pages, and from the Frontpage side, I am able to HTTP
publish an index page for the server to the root web in /var/www/html.
However, when trying to publish to my user subweb (~vigh/ or actual path:
/home/vigh/public_html), it says 'Server error: You cannot convert a
VirtualDirectory into a subweb remotely. . .'. This is after I already went
in and set everything up in the Admin pages, or at least I thought. It's
almost seems like my administration changes aren't being saved to the
server.
So my questions are these:
1. Why didn't it let me set an password for global administration? I
set one once I got in the admin pages, but the next time I go to login in to
adminstration, a blank password still works?
2. What URL should I use to publish to a 'public_html'-style web?
http://192.168.0.2/~vigh/? Or http://192.168.0.2//home/vigh/public_html/?
Or something else?
3 What else do I need to do? When I go and try to administer my
subweb '~vigh', I get a '500 internal server error'.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
Jonathan
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Jonathan Vigh
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From: Timothy Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: apache-fp@lists.joshie.com
Subject: Re: [Apache-FP] Administrator pages not working on FC3
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On Jan 25, 2005, at 1:35 AM, Jonathan L Vigh wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I finally got the Frontpage Server Extensions v1.2 onto my linux
> box (FC3) running apache2.0.52. Joshie's how-to was quite helpful for
> this (especially the part about loading httpd-devel). Now I'm trying
> to administer the extensions via the web (http://localhost:8090). On
> my linux box, I am able to get in after providing user/password, but
> the images are missing and whenever I put in some values and click
> 'submit', my browser (firefox) tries to save the URL as an executable.
This last part: John Spencer may have some relevant information @
http://www.johnspencer.info/LinuxTutorials/Red_Hat_FPSE/
FPSE2002onRedHat9.html#Adding%20FrontPage%20Users%20from%20Mozilla%20on%
20the%20Local%20Host
> I couldn't figure anyway to change the default behavior, so I gave up
> on the trying to administer from the linux side. Next, I tried to
> administer the page from my windows machine which sits on the local
> network. When I put in my local admin page address:
> http:192.168.0.2:8090/ I get a page not found error. Using the outside
> world address also doesn't work.
Hmmmm...
>
> I carefully followed Timothy Stone's thread back in December '04,
> since it seemed relevant. AllowOverride is set to All, my log
> directory is set to 755, and everything else about the FPSE install
> seemed okay. So what should I check next? Do I need to open a port in
> my firewall for port 8090, or does it go in on port 80?
You will need a port open on 8090 (or xxxx port as configured) to admin
the extensions/permissions.
> Has anyone found a way to do the adminstration locally on the linux
> box with an available linux browser? Is it possible to just do the
> basic set up by command line then not touch it again? If so, what do
> I need to do to set up a simple web for one user using
> the ~username type path (my web is in /home/vigh/public_html).
I pretty much ended up setting the administrator at the command line
and just barely touched it afterwards. I have had success admining from
a Mac OS X Panther PowerBook for more than a month, when I have to
admin it. But if I've had to do anything, it's tweak my httpd.conf here
and there, mainly related to security, not to admin.
>
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Jonathan Vigh
>
>
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>
> Jonathan Vigh
> Graduate Research Assistant
>
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